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Banks find that getting diverse small-business customers is harder than it looks
BMO Capital Markets is cutting jobs after downturn in business
BMO signs deal with Amazon division to help digital shift
BMO tops estimates as provisions drop, loan income recovers
Ameriprise to buy BMO unit with $124 billion in client funds
BMO’s Johannson plans digital upgrades to boost lagging returns
Canada’s fourth-largest bank is pressing ahead with big technology investments to cut costs and try to generate more revenue from existing customers, said Erminia Johannson, BMO’s head of personal and business banking for the U.S. and Canada. ... Read full article
Fifth Third shuffles executive lineup after CFO joins BMO
Fifth Third Bancorp. promoted Chief Risk Officer Jamie Leonard to succeed Tayfun Tuzun, who will become chief financial officer of BMO Financial Group on Jan. 1. Both companies made other executive moves at the same time. ... Read full article
Bank of Montreal CEO fights skeptics who see business loan woes
Bank of Montreal's top executive says it's a "myth" that his company's commercial lending business is taking big risks and argues the bank will come through the recession with fewer loan losses than rivals. ... Read full article
Leaders preview: Hear and be heard
A sneak peek of a new podcast launching on American Banker later this summer as part of our Leaders Forum, where senior voices and innovators will share their leadership experiences and perspectives on business-critical topics. Arizent CEO Gemma ... Read full article
RBC, BMO set aside record provisions for soured loans
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal joined their Canadian peers in setting aside record provisions for loan losses as they brace for the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. ... Read full article
Bank of Montreal takes job-cuts charge in drive for lower costs
Bank of Montreal's drive to improve efficiencies has come with a cost: C$357 million, along with more job cuts. ... Read full article
Year's 2nd-biggest merger, bank failures, small-bank layoffs: Top stories of the week
First Horizon, Iberiabank in year's second-biggest bank merger; bank failure in New Jersey is nation's third in a week; smaller banks take a turn swinging the ax; and more from this week's most-read stories. ... Read full article
BMO off to promising start on its AI projects
The team has already built three customer-facing AI tools this year, which it hopes to keep building upon. ... Read full article
Paying bankers more is cost of Canadian lenders' U.S. expansion
Bank of Montreal's push into the U.S. has proved fruitful for its employees — and challenging for a company seeking to get its expenses under control. ... Read full article
Scotiabank's Latin America push outpaces BMO's U.S. efforts
Scotiabank's earnings topped analysts' estimates on a surge in profit in its international-banking division, fueled by a sharpened focus on Latin America. Bank of Montreal, meanwhile, fell short of expectations as growth was more muted at its ... Read full article
Bank of Montreal surpasses U.S. growth target in six months, CEO says
Last year, CEO Darryl White said his goal was for U.S. operations to account for one-third of the bank's earnings in three to five years. It was a matter of months before the goal was reached. ... Read full article
BMO Financial's Ernie Johannson expands role
The Canadian parent of BMO Harris Bank in Chicago has named Johannson group head of North American personal banking, an extension of similar executive duties she holds in the U.S. ... Read full article
Even Canadian banks are shunning U.S. pot firms
CEOs at Bank of Montreal and TD Bank Group say they are unlikely to touch the American cannabis industry until the laws change. ... Read full article
Bank of Montreal CEO sees more growth in U.S. beyond the Midwest
Bank of Montreal is getting about half of its U.S. business from outside the company's Midwest stronghold, thanks to a commercial-banking push, Chief Executive Darryl White said. ... Read full article
